ClaimsNate Silver

“I’ve talked to some of the folks at Substack and they’ve assured me that this is relatively easy to do.”

Nate Silver, author of Silver Bulletin 11 September 2023 Soft launch of paid subscriptions (Silver Bulletin) archived copy

Factual Technology

Substack staff told Nate Silver that suspending monthly payments and prorated annual refunds is relatively easy to do.

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Reasoning

Private communications with Substack staff; only Silver or Substack could confirm.

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Nate Silver, “Substack staff told Nate Silver that suspending monthly payments and prorated annual refunds is relatively easy to do.” (said 11 September 2023). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_f258fe56bc26, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_f258fe56bc26

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